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As Persian Gulf monarchs forcibly suppress street protests in the kingdom of Bahrain, the Obama administration has responded mostly with mild or muted objections – a sharp contrast from its demands for new governments in the republics of Egypt and Libya. Read more
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BELGRADE (Reuters) – Serbian nationalists attacked police in Belgrade on Sunday at a rally where about 10,000 protesters demanded President Boris Tadic and his government quit over the arrest of Bosnian Serb wartime general Ratko Mladic. Read more
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DUBLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) – Ireland may have to ask for another loan from the European Union and International Monetary Fund because it will struggle to return to debt markets to raise funds next year, a government minister said on Sunday. Read more
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Warner (left) and Bin Hammam now face a full investigation Fifa has provisionally suspended executive committee members Mohamed Bin Hammam and Jack Warner after a meeting of its ethics committee on Sunday. Football’s governing body will now open a full investigation into allegations that financial incentives were offered to [...]
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BERLIN (AFP) – The EU will follow the IMF in blocking the June transfer of more Greek aid unless Athens does more to fix its public finances, economic affairs commissioner Olli Rehn was quoted as saying Sunday. Read more
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SANAA (Reuters) – An al Qaeda group tightened its grip on a Yemeni coastal town while in the capital Sanaa a truce was holding on Sunday between President Ali Abdullah Saleh’s forces and armed rebels, hours after it was agreed. Read more
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Huguette Clark owned a 42-room apartment overlooking New York‘s Central Park, a castle in Connecticut set in 52 acres and a house in California, built on a 23-acre bluff overlooking the Pacific. Yet she spent the past 20 years of her life in various hospitals, and died last week aged 104 in one of them, [...]
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People making false claims told inspectors they didn’t realise they were on benefits, must have had their identity stolen – or had an identical twin making claims. Read more
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A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew himself up during a meeting at a provincial governor’s compound Saturday in northern Afghanistan, killing six people, including two German soldiers, and wounding the top German commander in the country, officials said. Read more
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Comprehensive list of those wanted in the Rwandan genocideInternational Criminal Tribune for Rwanda Read more
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Afghanistan’s intelligence agency reported that one-eyed Taliban leader Mullah Omar hadn’t been seen for five days; the Taliban (who, in case you missed it, now tweet) angrily denied the “claims and rumors” coming out of Kabul. More: Read more
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From What Did He Just Say? –Meet Rep. Joe Walsh, the biggest media hound in the freshman class.in Slate: Since being sworn in less than six months ago, [Northwest surburban Republican U.S. Rep. Joe] Walsh has appeared on prime time cable news or Sunday shows 28 times. When Congress is in session, he [...]
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2:42pm UK, Saturday May 28, 2011 Sam Kiley, security editor, in Jerusalem Palestinians are delighted. Egypt’s opening of the Rafah crossing, its border with the Gaza Strip, is literally the opening of the prison [...]
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© Channel 4 The Million Pound Drop Live stayed above 2m viewers for its penultimate edition on Friday night, according to the latest overnight data. Hosted by Davina McCall, the big-money gameshow logged 1.88m (8.6%) between 9pm and 10.30pm, adding 183k on Channel 4 +1. However week-on-week, the programme lost 300k. BBC One recaptured its [...]
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African Union and Somali troops appear ready to move into the skinny alleys of Mogadishu’s largest market to oust the militants who control it in an operation that, if successful, could be the most visible win against militants in years. Read more
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While political geeks are a-Twitter about Sarah Palin possibly jumping into the GOP primary, the only other female Republican prez candidate is getting ready to actually do the actual grunt work of… Read more
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SANGIN, AFGHANISTAN – The Marine battalion fighting out of this southern Afghanistan district has suffered more losses than any other in the history of the decade-long Afghan war. Read more
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A division of Johnson & Johnson is recalling 43 over-the-counter medicines made for infants and children — including liquid versions of Tylenol, Motrin, Zyrtec and Benadryl — after federal regulators identified what they called deficiencies at the company’s manufacturing facility. Read more
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VENEZUELA Chávez opponents jailed in crackdown Two foes of Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez who had publicly criticized the socialist government in recent days found themselves in jail this week as part of a crackdown on opposition figures that has prompted alarm about the state of democracy in the oil-rich Latin American country. On Monday, former [...]
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The New York Times renewed on Thursday its call for information about four of its journalists who went missing while covering the Libyan conflict. “We are still worried about our colleagues missing in Libya,” the Times wrote in a blog post on its Web site. All four, it added, “have faced many dangers before. Our [...]